Can I home educate?

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Can I home educate my daughter if she has a ehcp? I keep hearing different things. She is 11 in year 6 I want to home Ed as she did not get a place in a suitable secondary school and the one she was given I will not be sending her to, they have named it in the ehcp. Can I home educate her? Surely I can’t be forced to send her? (It’s mainstream)

You’ll be legally able to

the question is though are you actually able to? Experience? Your education? Your time available?

I’m not an expert in this area but I’m pretty sure that anyone can home educate. Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong though!

Legally in England you can. You just send a letter to school stating you will be registering her as of x date.

How did you get on in lockdown? Remember you will be with her 24/7. Most people who home educate join a network so they can share expertise and support each other. You will be subjected to Ofsted type inspections. When you say ‘anyone can do it’ remember that teachers have to have a degree and are trained to teach. SEN specialists have taken further qualifications. If you home educate how will your daughter get social interaction. Why does your EHCP plan not specify a special school? My grand children have really developed in their special school.

Legally yes you can.
In reality, only you n ow if you’ll be able to mange and provide her with suitable learning experiences.
Do you work? Have any experience? How does she engage with you? My Dd is a perfect student in school, was extremely hard work drying lockdown. She did NOT want to work for me! And I’m a teacher, who teaches her age range! Home schooling would be awful!
Do lots of research.
What support does her EHCP stipulate?

@mdh2020 You will be subjected to Ofsted type inspections what utter nonsense you don’t even have to speak to the LA if you don’t want to. An annual written report is sufficient. And teaching a class is very different to teaching your own child.
Yes op in the UK you do not need permission to HE if your dd has an EHCP.

@Smartiepants79 your issue is you were home schooling your dd, you were not home educating her. Teaching your own child the NC and trying to replicate school sounds awful it was never going to work well.

How do you expect to be able to do that as well as a teacher.
Can you prepare her for exams
Do you know the syllabus
So you know what questions are likely to appear in exams

No I don’t work due to being her carer, only wanting to know legally if I can as I have heard mixed things about it as she has a EHCP.

Don’t want a debate about home educating 😕 Plenty of people home educate… only looking at the legal side of things with her having a EHCP.

Op I have come across your other threads about how you are desperate for a break and struggling with 24/7 with your children

this doesn’t sound like it might be the right thing to do

www.ipsea.org.uk/home-schooling-and-education-otherwise

I'm sure other posters mean well, but much of the information given is incorrect. This link gives you an idea of your options and if you join the Education Otherwise FB group you can get some specific support relating to your situation.

It is slightly more complicated to withdraw with an ehcp. Not impossible though.

Yes you can. If your child attends a special school then you will need to apply to the LA who cannot withhold consent unreasonably. If in mainstream, just send in a deregistration letter to the school, ask for a receipt and you're done! They school must then take your child's name off the register with immediate effect and inform the LA (if they don't they're breaking the law)

Why are you bringing that into it? I’m a lone parent aren’t most lone parents desperate for a break 😅🤣

I am a lone parent

you started a thread sounding utterly desolate about your every day life

so if not any more, then great and go for it

Thanks for those that have answered my question and I will check the link, I wasn’t looking for a debate I had to double check I didn’t post on AIBU!

Do you genuinely want to HE? I ask because appealing the placement and ehcp recommendation may be preferable initially to complete withdrawal.

I have no choice but to home educate her it’s not a choice she can not go to the mainstream. It’s not an option as far as I’m concerned. My other children will be in school so it will only be her at home.

I can’t I’ve missed the deadline

My son is dyspraxic and has Aspergers and I home educated him as a single parent as there were no suitable secondary schools for him. I loved it, it was tough at times, but so much easier than the school system.

Thank you! Nice to hear some positivity I don’t know why I’m getting such nasty comments I have zero choice but to home educate her they have given her a mainstream school which she can not cope with, I am not sending her it’s not an option as far as I am concerned.

@prh47bridge - can you advise on the legalities, particularly whether, when there's an EHCP in place, there is a fixed deadline for appeals

I meant to say, my son did not do any GCSEs or A levels. He had a serious operation when he was 17 and when he had recovered at aged 19 he put himself through college. He had to start with a level 1 course, but he got distinctions at level 3, student of the year at college and was accepted at all his university choices.

Hi op.
Legally, yes you can choose to home educate with an ehcp.
However, if you see seeking a special school placement, perhaps ask your child's current school to hold an early/ emergency annual review. You can request changes to the ehcp through the annual review process, and if the LA do not agree, you will have the right of appeal.